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1 Apr 2025 – Some 60 union officers (38 women, 17 men, 13 youth) coming from NTUC Phl affiliates from various parts of the country conducted a Blended Celebration of Women’s Month with the theme “Collective Bargaining for Women and Youth Issues” today. Resource persons gave updates on the status of the implementation of ILO Convention No. 190 (BWSC/DOLE OIC Director); an “Orientation on ILO C190 and Prospects on its application in CBAs and other enterprise documents” (NTUC Phl DGS); and “ Negotiating a company policy on VnH (violence and harassment)” (NTUC Phl HGS).
April 2, 2025
March 27, 2025
22 March 2025 – Nine participants (seven women, two men, 3 youth) started the 11-Saturday 4th Cluster learning course (CLiCK 4) conducted by the NTUC Phl Leadership Institute (LEADNtI). NTUC CLiCK’s training for women and young workers for leadership uses improved modules from CLiCk 1 (2023), CLiCk 2 (2024), CLiCk 3 (2024) and the ITUC AP/DGB BW/ATUC leadership modules and mentoring manuals. The in-person course takes place at the ObreNa Center in Quezon City. The teaching team, led by President Jhing Ogalinda, comes from NTUC Phl. Participating federations fully support the program and participants’ expenses. The three CLiCK programs have produced 30 graduates (out of 44 starters). The graduates have stated their CLiCk network.
March 23, 2025
15 Dec 2024 – Nine participants (seven women) hugged their framed certificates in their graduation from the challenging 11-Saturday 3rd Cluster learning course (CLiCK 3) conducted by the NTUC Phl Leadership Institute (LEADNtI). They were joined in celebration on Dec 15 by graduates from the first two CLiCks in 2023 and 2024. NTUC CLiCK’s training for women and young workers for leadership uses improved modules from CLiCks 1 and 2 and the ITUC AP/DGB BW/ATUC leadership modules and mentoring manuals. The in-person course took place at the ObreNa Center in Quezon City. The teaching team, led by President Jhing Ogalinda, comes from NTUC Phl. Participating federations fully supported the program and participants’ expenses. There are now a total of 30 graduates (from 44 starters) of the three CLiCk courses. The next CLiCK starts in March 2025.
December 15, 2024
18 Aug 2024 – NTUC Phl President Jhing Ogalinda stressed “Ganyan talaga ang patuloy na mangyayari [sa economy] dahil inde naman kasama ang ating workers and their families dyan. Inde inclusive ang Philippine economy. Paano makaaahon ang bansa kung patuloy na depressed ang real wages, at lalong lumalalim ang inequality.” In the blended NTUC Phl 6th anniversary celebrations on Aug 18, she said that slowed consumption caused by depressed real wages and inequality is holding down what the economy could be. While noting that NTUC Phl and its affiliates have resumed normal operations despite global uncertainties, President Jhing cited continuing Covid in 84 countries, conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza and elsewhere, harsh demonstrations from climate change, among multiple crises.
August 19, 2024
10 and 24 Aug 2024 – Eleven participants (seven women, four men) started the 11-Saturday 3rd Cluster learning course (CLiCK 3) conducted by the NTUC Phl Leadership Institute (LEADNtI). NTUC CLiCK’s training for women and young workers for leadership uses improved modules from CLiCk 1 (2023), CLiCk 2 (2024), and the ITUC AP/DGB BW/ATUC leadership modules and mentoring manuals. The in-person course takes place at the ObreNa Center in Quezon City. The teaching team, led by President Jhing Ogalinda, comes from NTUC Phl. Participating federations fully support the program and participants’ expenses. The pilot (online) CLiCK 1 program in 2023 graduated 16 leaders (out of 24 online participants). CLiCk 2 produced six graduates (out of nine starters).
August 11, 2024
31 July 2024 – Extreme heat, floods, high rice price despite imports. Ever-growing real GDP, but depressed real wages and earnings. Slow economic growth, brought in part by no sharing with workers of the real gains in production and productivity. These concerns are affecting safety and health in workplaces and communities. They are affecting even people’s mental health. Participants noted these challenges in the 2024 edition of the long-running series of the joint JILAF/NTUC Phl Seminars on Employment Security and Constructive Industrial Relations with the theme “Assuring Health and Safety for Workers and their Families in the Just Transitions” that took place against this backdrop of multiple challenges.
July 31, 2024
6 June 2024 – After 12 ‘shocking’ months of broken heat records, scientists say Earth is 4 years away from crossing 1.5 degrees of heating BYTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND JAMEY KEATEN June 6, 2024 at 12:24 AM GMT+8. UN Secretary General António Guterres called for new taxes on fossil fuel companies as global temperatures continue to soar. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres called Wednesday for a “windfall” tax on profits of fossil fuel companies to help pay for the fight against global warming, decrying them as the “godfathers of climate chaos.”
June 10, 2024
9 Jun 2024 – Six participants (5 women, 2 youth) completed the 11-Saturday Cluster Learning Course (CLiCK 2) training women and young workers for leadership. The now in-person course that started on 10 Feb was an intense program ranging from Time management to trade union administration and finance to Artificial intelligence and unions conducted by a teaching team from NTUC Phl led by President Jhing Ogalinda. The CLiCK courses are now institutional, conducted by the NTUC Phl Leadership Institute (LEADNtI). The next course CLiCk 3 will start in Aug 2024.
June 8, 2024
8 Mar 2024 – Some 45 participants (six men), all but ten online, participated in the blended NTUC Phl International Women’s Day celebrations at the ObreNa Center in Quezon City. President Jhing Ogalinda, DGS Angelita Senorin, Asst Treasurer Cyril Doctor, and AGS Joan Bautista facilitated the program. A new 18-point Women and Youth Agenda for 2024-2028 was recommended for confirmation by the NTUC Phl General Council in April 2024. The Assembly discussed further work on WaY issues considering the Aug 18, 2023 2nd National Convention resolutions and the Philippine ratification in March 2024 of ILO Convention 190 on Violence and Harassment in the World of Work.
March 8, 2024
14 February 2024 – Philpost and Pinag-isang Organisasyon ng mga Tagapangalaga ng Liham (POSTAL) signed their collective negotiation agreement (CNA) in front of the iconic Manila Central Post Office building that was burned in May 2023. POSTAL, the only accredited union with a bargaining agreement in Philpost, is the 21st NTUC Phl affiliate, approved in Oct 2023. Philpost officers, POSTAL president Graze Lacson, general secretary Jonathan del Rosario, and president emeritus Roni Tuazon were joined by NTUC Phl president Milagros Ogalinda, deputy GS Angel Senorin, and newly-appointed assistant GS Joan Bautista in the historic event.
February 20, 2024
January 6, 2024
June 19, 2023
28 July 2022 – NTUC Phl members say unprecedented difficulties spawned by COVID-19 and fallout from the Ukraine crisis and responses by government and employers have not been enough to start recovery from the large reversals in gains from decades of struggle for decent work and against inequality. These challenges from multiple crises, including from climate change, require radical proactive global, national, federation, local union interventions, and programs. They batted for their concerns and advocacies in online meetings with various government agencies.
July 28, 2022
30 Sept 2021 – NTUC’s farmers organization FFF (Federation of Free Farmers) has had good results at influencing government policies and programs through coalition-building, mass and social media, and interaction with executive and legislative branches – coalition mass actions against rice trade liberalization; ongoing recovery by government of uncollected tariff from rice imports in 2019 and 2020, which are meant for farmer productivity and competitiveness programs; actions against rice importation which disadvantages rice farmers;
September 30, 2021
19 Aug 2021 – NTUC Phl holds it Joint Women and Youth Assemblies on the occasion of its 3rd Anniversary on 18 August 2021, via Zoom online. President Rodolfo M. Capoquian, in his message and report, cited growing tiredness, but firm determination, with 18 months ng community quarantine. He cited reports of suicides, mental unwellness, deeper poverty and increasing misery. He expressed apprehension that economic recovery might not include workers and their families, with deeper inequality worsened by the pandemic.
August 28, 2021

April 2025

World Day for Safety and Health at Work
“Safety and health at work every day!”

Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
#WearMask #WashHands #Distancing #TakePicturesVideos

#Coronavirus in Phl

Time to support & empower survivors. Time to spark a global conversation. Time for #GenerationEquality to #orangetheworld!

Monthly Observances:

March – Women’s Role in History Month
April – Month of Planet Earth

Weekly Observances:
Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
Last Week of April – World Immunization Week

Daily Observances:
Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work

Trade Union Solidarity Campaigns

  • 12 June 2024 – Global unions urge ILO to invoke Article 33 on Myanmar
  • 14 Sept 2022 – IUF — Myanmar : URGENT ACTION to stop military junta
  • 13 Dec 2021 – Indian farmers end yearlong protests as government caves in
  • Act NOW! – LabourStart

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No to Trafficking

  • 24 Feb 2025 – 20 face human trafficking charges after Parañaque Pogo hub raid
  • 11 Dec 2024 – 2 surrogacy trafficking victims intercepted at NAIA
  • 22 Jul 2024 – Court admits digital evidence in abuse case
  • 26 June 2024 – US anti-trafficking report: Philippines keeps Tier 1 status
  • 1 Apr 2024 – BI detects ‘bitbit,’ a new human trafficking scheme
  • Mar 3, 2024 – 66 face raps for illegal recruitment to South Korea
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Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!

  • To ace your next interview for a management position, be ready to answer these 10 questions
  • 30 Mar 2021 – DOLE to hire displaced workers as contact tracers
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